Why ERP Advisors Group

Shawn Windle is the Founder and Managing Principal of ERP Advisors Group based in Denver, Colorado. ERP Advisors Group (EAG) is one of the country’s top independent boutique enterprise software advisory firms. At EAG, Shawn manages a team of consultants that advise mid to large size organizations on selecting and implementing business applications from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Capital Management (HCM) and other enterprise applications, which equate to $10Ms+ in software deals each year. He has worked in the enterprise software industry for over 20 years. Shawn started his career at Accenture and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and moved into the software industry with Oracle as a Technology Product Manager. Prior to ERP Advisors, he helped establish a successful technology practice with a top 50 accounting firm. There are only a few people in the world with the practical software experience that Shawn has gained with helping hundreds of clients across many industries with selecting and implementing a wide variety of enterprise solutions.

As the Principal, Operations, Erica became the first partner of ERP Advisors Group. She has implemented infrastructure across the company to serve all back-office processes, including Human Resources, Accounting, Sales, and Marketing. She helped bring the company from a sole proprietorship in 2014 to an Inc. 5000 award-winning company in just a few years' time. She continues to head up Sales while overseeing all of the administrative staff. Her aim is two-pronged: to make EAG increasingly competitive to high-quality recruits while caring for the employee’s lifecycle with good training on our policies, procedures and methodology, making them effective and ethical across our client’s projects; and to attract growing mid-market projects from clients with interesting problems who are a good fit for our company’s values and skillsets. In 2020, she launched the company’s second location by establishing an office with a new Director of Human Resources on the east coast.

Lydia Wischmeyer is the Operations Manager for ERP Advisors Group. She works closely with the Operations Principal to provide assistance in several different key areas of the company, such as Human Resources, Sales, and Accounting. She is a graduate from Colorado Christian University (CCU) and specializes in administration and management and enjoys getting to hone her skills at an ever-growing company.

Natalie is a graduate of Colorado Christian University with her Master's in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on Project Management. She is the Consulting Executive Assistant for ERP Advisors Group. She works closely with the Managing Principal to provide assistance in several key areas of the company, including consulting administration, and quality management. 

Juliette is the Promotion and Marketing Manager for ERP Advisors Group. Juliette works closely with the Managing Principal and Director of Business Development to plan and create promotional and marketing materials for print and media. Juliette organizes ERP Advisors Group’s monthly conference call series and produces collateral materials and promotional campaigns related to each. Juliette focuses on public relations for EAG as well as coordinates and executes marketing events, special events, and company events effectively with her meticulous attention to detail.

Quentin has been in the Information Technology business for over 20 years. He has led teams as a Director of IT, brought innovative products to market as a Product Manager, and led large teams as a Director of Technical Support. He got his start building PCs, testing hardware, and working in telecommunications. From there he went on to ISPs, Technical Support, Customer Service, Systems Administration, Product Management, and Director level positions in the Software Technology field. Today he provides leadership and guidance to our consulting team through a wide variety of technical knowledge, experience, and skills, along with being a Microsoft Certified Professional, Administrator, Systems Engineer and an experienced consultant in the ERP space. Quentin manages the ERP Advisors Group Team on needs analysis, software selection, and implementation services.

Curtis Wait has over 25 years of experience as a Business Consultant in business systems and processes. Curtis worked for 12 years in the Denver office of Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting practice working on clients’ business improvement and technology. Since then, he has been assisting clients in a variety of industries with their information technology and project implementation needs. Recent clients include a multi-national NetSuite implementation at an international mining company and the rollout of a new security system for a major financial services company. Curtis specializes in advising executive leadership regarding business technology, in addition to his work in project management, training, testing, financial analysis and process improvement.

John Patridge is a Principal Consultant for ERP Advisors Group. He leads ERP evaluations, selections, data migration, application integration and software development projects for clients. John Patridge has 35 years of experience in the engineering, construction and software industries. His career began with engineering positions in nuclear power and commercial construction working on design and maintenance projects. John’s focus later turned to project controls on assignments for companies including: Pacific Gas and Electric, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Eastman Kodak, Stone & Webster, Raytheon, and SNC Lavelin. John has spent the last 24 years working for software and consulting companies specializing in the development and implementation of construction software. During this period, John served as Director of Client Services for Profitool and Project Manager of Key New Accounts for Activant Solutions, Principal Consultant for Construction Change Partners and Director of Construction Data Services for Tilson Technology. John graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. He resides in Denver.

A proven IT leader with expertise at a high level as well as being hands on. Robert is experienced as an IT Director, Program Manager, Developer as well as Technical Support and Technical Sales Support. The sum of his experience enables him to synthesize the complex towards simplifying solutions to achieve customer outcomes and high team morale. His experience extends to Manufacturing, Finance, Farming, Construction, Natural Resources and Retail industries.

With more than 40 years of experience, David has high-level skills at conceiving, creating and implementing solutions to complex business and systems problems for bottom-line results. David acts as agent of change with an “owner” perspective with organization, communications and technical skills with an ability to work with people at all levels of the business. In addition, he has detail level knowledge and hands-on skills with manufacturing production and planning, ASP, SQL, IIS, HTML, Access and Microsoft tools for integration of custom requirements with “off the shelf” tools. With his direct experience across the organization streamlining business processes he helps clients eliminate waste and improve margins and deliver exchange in abundance with his practical, hands-on experience.

With over 37 years of industry experience, Brian’s background as a certified network manager includes software development manager, developer and programmer facilitating client needs to fulfill government tax compliance. Brian has developed payroll-specific solutions in addition to developing and supporting various web portals for site administration, data maintenance and external web access. He brings his technical skills to our clients’ ERP projects by transforming and migrating their data out of legacy applications.

Justin Newcomer is a Senior Consultant for ERP Advisors Group. With more than 20 years' experience implementing Oracle Applications into businesses to improve processes and solve problems, he places an enormous emphasis on relationship building with clients, colleagues, and any other stakeholders to maintain strong personal connections, making highly fruitful collaborations. He is well versed in requirements gathering, process mapping and development, application configuration, testing, user training, go-live processes, and user support.

Carly has 5 years of experience in the accounting world. She got her start at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in their assurance practice. She then transferred to private industry working in the financial services sector. Prior to her time in accounting, she spent extensive time working in management for a multitude of industries including construction, manufacturing, marketing, and entertainment. Additionally, she has years of customer service experience.

Grant Jones is a Senior Analyst for ERP Advisors Group. Grant is responsible for researching vendors, creating deliverables, and assisting consultants on various projects where he uses his specialization in analytical problem solving to help consultants work on software advisory projects.

Lauren Parmley is an Analyst for ERP Advisors Group. She will graduate from the University of
Denver in June with a bachelor's degree in International Business. Lauren is responsible for
researching vendors, creating deliverables, and assisting consultants on various projects.

Dennis Braan has worked as a technical writer and editor for 30 years, with experience gained in a variety of software and hardware development environments. As the Technical Writer for ERP Advisors Group, he leverages that experience to facilitate successful ERP implementations with helpful user guides and documentation. His ability to unravel the complexities of cutting-edge technology fuels a passion for new projects — and Dennis relishes the challenge of facing the uncharted and the unexplored. Dennis has authored and edited end-user documentation for a variety of products: System Admin Guides, User Guides, Component Reference Guides, Software Programming Guides, Application Programming Interface descriptions, Technical Requirements documents, Process Engineering process flows, Training Documentation, Product Specifications — the list goes on and on. Dennis lives in Denver, Colorado and is doing final editing on a book he has authored on how to read music notation.

AJ Cross is the Human Resource Intern. He will graduate from Colorado Christian University in
May 2023. AJ provides support to the Human Resources department to assist in business
processes, office duties, and employee recruitment. Previously, AJ worked in Human Resources
for the Army Reserves and is looking forward to utilizing his skills at EAG.

Thomas Adams is the Digital Marketing Manager for ERP Advisors Group. Thomas's responsibilities include ensuring the existing marketing programs are running consistently and providing relevant analytics. He oversees the Marketing Department to ensure the success, consistency, and growth of EAG’s marketing strategy and content creation. He is a graduate from University of Colorado's Graduate Business Program, specializing in marketing and strategy.

Rebekah McCabe is a Digital Marketing Analyst for ERP Advisors Group. Rebekah’s responsibilities include the generation of marketing content for social media, email campaigns, events, The ERP Advisor, and much more to ensure the success and consistency of EAG’s marketing platforms. She is a graduate from Colorado Christian University, specializing in international business and marketing. She enjoys the opportunity to utilize and grow her skills at EAG.

Will Dutton is the Marketing Intern. He will graduate from Colorado Christian University in May 2022. He is responsible for helping generate marketing content for our social media, email campaigns, events, lead generation efforts, promotional materials and any other medium to ensure EAG’s marketing consistency.